Here's what it's like when your family likes your boyfriend more than you.

You sometimes feel like they are more proud of his accomplishments than yours.

It could be because your boyfriend is the newest addition to your family, so maybe their interest is redirected, but DAMN isn't it annoying when your boyfriend gets praised everything they do. Even if they're doing something normal like making the bed or holding a door open for you when YOU were busy nailing a big project that week at work or completing your first half marathon.

MEN. RIGHT?!

You feel like you are competing for their attention.

By the way my family laughs at all of my boyfriend's jokes, you would think he was the first person who ever came up with the phrase, "Why did the chicken cross the road?"

Family meals can quickly turn into THE BOYFRIEND VARIETY SHOW while you're left in the background, eating pigs in a blanket looking at your split ends.

You find out they talk or hang out, even if you're not around.

The first time I found out my parents text my boyfriend without looping me in, my initial reaction was "awww" immediately followed by, "Wait. WTF do you talk about?"

Finding out that your parents have a relationship with your significant other outside of when you bring him around can be alarming and confusing. And now that I think about it... when was the last time my mom texted me?

Your boyfriend knows information about your family before you do.

WOW, is there anything more annoying than being the last person in your family to know something?

Oh. I can think of something. Being the last person to know something BEHIND YOUR BOYFRIEND.

If he ever brings home tidbits about your relatives, upcoming holidays or latest gossip, tell him "boy, bye" and go get some ice cream because that shit is infuriating and you deserve someone who understands you. Like Ben & Jerry.